Frances Ward

Frances Mary Brown (nee Ward) Foundation Mayoress of Porirua City for 21 years(January 22, 1912 — June 29, 1987)

Frances Mary Brown; Also known as "Francie" was the Wife of Whitford Brown, the Foundation Mayor of Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand for 21 years (1962-1983) the first three years of which Porirua was a borough and inaugurated as a city in 1965 by Sir Bernard Furgusson, who was Governer-General of New Zealand at the time.

"Frances Brown Avenue " in Porirua, which is off Whitford Brown Avenue is named after her.

Frances Brown was Mayoress at the opening of the Royal New Zealand Police College April 1, 1981,Porirua along with her husband Whitford Brown Mayor of porirua and HRH Prince Charles the Prince of Wales whom officially opened the college for use.

Frances Mary Brown (nee Ward) has a rather "Illustrious Lineage"Daughter of Joseph Thomas Ward; who discovered "Ward Doubles" and his wife Ada Evelyn Wright (Daughter of Capt. Sydney E.L Wright; Esq of Wellington; Paymaster of the Royal Navy)
She is also the Great-(8 generations) grand daughter of the Diarist, John Evelyn, the Diarist of London; owner of Sayes Court; which the Russian Tsar Peter the Great was known to be a tenent.Another Regal Grandparent; is the French Countess Félicité Perpétue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d'Albe, whose Regal Ancestry can be traced back to the foundations of Rome; and descends from the Duke of Alba Fernando Álvarez de Toledo d'Albe; Perpetue was the aunt of Wilbraham Liardet founder of Liardets' Beach, Melbourne Australia Frances is the youngest daughter of New Zealand astronomer Joseph Thomas Ward who discovered double stars named in his honour ("Ward Doubles") and his wife Ada Evelyn Wright; who is the x5 great-granddaughter of the Privateer Fortunatus Wright of LiverpoolShe also has several renowned relative's such as Winston Churchill [?] , the British Prime Minister of WWII.

Various Credible Source's
1.Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) "Ward Double's"
2.Dictionary of New Zealand Biography "Joseph Thomas Ward"
3.Husband; Mayor Whitford Brown's obiturary; The Evening Post (Wellington,New Zealand, April 14th 1986).
4.Perpetue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d'Albe, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet; Romantic Visionary of the Beach, 1839–62; The "La Trobe" Journal" http://calisto.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-54/t1-g-t1.html

5.Final resting place:, from the Porirua City Council: http://www.pcc.govt.nz/cemetery/Frameset_search.asp
6.New Zealand Society of Genealogists; N.ZFirst Families;Surname's: Wright,Liardet,Ward,Prideaux,Evelyn,de Lamanon d'Albe

7."50th Golden Wedding Anniversary": Article In The Wellington Paper. MAYORAL COUPLE CELEBRATE - By Tim Donoghue
8.The Wanganui Registars' Office.
9.Peter the Great stays at Diarist; Sir John Evelyns' Sayes Court: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.158
10.The Plantagenet Rolls; "Of The Blood Royal" Descendents of: PRIDEAUX, Sir Peter.
11.Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook,LIARDET, Sydney Evelyn RN 1825–1857
12.Tripartite Indenture dated 12th October 1770, Charles Evelyn of Totnes and Philippa Wright his wife
13.The Blood Royal of Britain: Being a complete Roll of the Living Descendants of Edward Plantagenet
14.Debrett's Baronetage of England: Containing Their Descent and Present State "Evelyn of Wooton" ... By John Debrett
15.Dictionary of National Biography, By Leslie Stephen,Sidney Lee; Published 1893 by Smith, Elder
16.The Gentleman's Magazine,1867 - Page 401
17"."The name in Italian is Alba; in Spanish; it is Alva, and Albe in French, as it now stands" Entire reference to Frances Wards
Lineage Mother,Father etc. From: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, page 309

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